Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal Cookies

"I had peanut butter, I had frozen bananas, I had oatmeal, I had raisins, and I wanted cookies. I just couldn't find the right recipe, so modified what I could find and came up with this one. The resulting cookies are pretty good, but are missing "something". I can't put my finger on it. If it was a savory recipe, I would say it needed more salt. Otherwise, I was pretty happy with them. They make a soft cookie with a good bite."
 
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photo by Kathleen Constance
Ready In:
45mins
Ingredients:
13
Yields:
36 cookies
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • In a medium bowl, wisk together flours, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Stir in oatmeal and set aside.
  • In a large bowl, cream together peanut butter and sugars. Add egg and banana and mix well.
  • Pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients bowl and mix together thoroughly with large spoon. Stir in nuts, chocolate chips, or raisins (I used raisins in my first batch -- didn't have either nuts or chocolate chips).
  • Batter will be fairly wet, so put bowl in fridge for 15 minutes to firm up.
  • Prepare baking sheets with parchment paper. Drop cookie dough by teaspoons onto sheets. Bake for 12-13 minutes. Cool on racks. (Note: return bowl to fridge in between baking.) Makes 36-45 cookies, depending on how big they are.

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Reviews

  1. These are a moist chewy cookie. A good use of ripe bananas that isn't banana bread! Easy recipe. I did switch to all straight brown sugar, and used butterscotch chips. When I make them again I will add more nutmeg and cinnamon. My dough was firmer than I expected as Kathleen said her dough was on the soft side.
     
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